
I put together most of my retrocomputing bookshelf while learning Intel 8080 and CP/M programming, which reflects in the selection of titles. For more great photos of retrocomputing bookshelfs see:
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/shelfies-bookshelves-with-a-retrocomputing-angle/190
On the 40th anniversary of the Amiga, I made a decision.
Once my retro Mac station is fully set up — upgraded, tuned, and running just the way I want — I’ll part with the extra machines to fund a proper Amiga setup.
The Mac station is an exercise in nostalgia. The Amiga station will be one of total discovery — I never had one back in the day.
Kennt ihr schon die sagenumwobenen T601f, X63 und T700 FrankenPads? Neben zahlreichen Retrofit-Projekten gibt es auch einige einfachere Mods, die ihr an eurem älteren #ThinkPad durchführen könnt.
A reconstruction of the ARPAnet by @larsbrinkhoff running some of the original PDP10 OSes and an IMP simulator. Fascinating!
https://obsolescence.dev/obsolescence-newsletter-jul-2025.html#c3
ECMA specs for Minimal BASIC ECMA-55:
https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-55/
Standard BASIC ECMA-116:
https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-116/
(not that I'm conforming to either fully, but they're useful technical references)
All those football games were always so dull. Until, finally…
( Source: @gamemagprintads )
does your website load and render on windows 98? #retrozilla #retrocomputing https://maple.pet
Who remembers making "fun names" in #Quake? I just uploaded "PM's Cooler Namebuilder" to archive.org. I haven't been able to find the original zip file anywhere, but I had the binary handy so decided I'd better get it preserved.
Got all this for just £40 at my local auction house! #Acorn #Electron #Retrocomputing
Finally got my hands on one of these babys, wanted one for so long, gorgeous #Acorn #Electron #RetroComputing
Made an OS/2 Warp 3-ish theme for my X11 window manager and finally added support for showing application icons in the top left corner.
Unfocused windows have a slightly darker border (unlike in OS/2), which helps me identify which window has focus.
(The WM is keyboard-driven only, hence I left out the minimize/maximize buttons in the right corner.)
(Is X11 #RetroComputing yet?)
Back with the 4040: as usual the drive is a dual CPU system. The second CPU is a regular 6502. One processor handles the IEEE488 bus and DOS routines, while the other is dealing with the GCR encoding and talking to the drive mechanisms.
On the 1541 this is all reduced to one CPU.
#commodore #floppydisk #commodorePET #retrocomputing
I really need to find an excuse to bring my A500 (w/ TF536) out of storage more, if only just to admire the black case from A1200.net, they do such a good job. At some point I need to do the keypads too, but I kind of like the white on black. For Amiga owners with multiple machines, do you have specific tasks you like to do with each, or do you just have one as your primary?
How smoothly it is rendered. Memo to myself to get a proper base tutorial aboute #Elite
#RetroComputing #RetroGame
Join us NEXT WEEK at VCF West at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA!
We’re demoing ITS, Altair BASIC under PDP-10 simulation, the ICM restoration blog, and 26 remotely accessible vintage systems from our Tukwila, WA museum.
Hitting the road shortly for INIT HELLO, the new Apple II conference at the System Source Computer Museum in Baltimore. Fun, retro weekend ahead!
Good morning Fedi! Do any of yall use a operating system that's not Linux, Windows, BSD or Mac on a regular basis? If so, which one?
My new project is a version of BBC Master Elite, but with a twist.
Sure, it’s pretty niche, but this has never been done before, which is always fun.
Can you tell what it is yet? The clue's in the clip...